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Magneto #21

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Magneto #21Magneto is dead. Again. Despite being my favorite villain in the Marvel pantheon I somehow can’t get moved by the the X-Men’s greatest enemy, and sometimes friend, stepping in to save the world which he’s always viewed as lesser than himself and has always viewed him as little more than a monster.

I have spent my time avoiding Marvel’s new Secret Wars crossover and its tie-ins so I don’t really understand why the world is being destroyed, what exactly is destroying it, where the other heroes seem to be, or what Magneto actually does to save the world in an issue that reads an awful lot like a cheap rip-off of The Final Night. Still, I will admit I enjoyed the flashabacks to the character’s more flamboyant past (and his trademark red and blue costume).

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Beauty and the Beast – Sins of the Fathers

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  • Title: Beauty and the Beast – Sins of the Fathers
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Beauty and the Beast - Sins of the Fathers

Setting the stage for the season finale, “Sins of the Fathers” heats up Vincent (Jay Ryan) and Catherine‘s (Kristin Kreuk) battle with Liam (Jason “Iron Eagle” Gedrick) who gets Catherine investigated by Internal Affairs and Vincent suspended from the hospital just as he prepares to take his revenge against the entire Ellingsworth family. Out of time and options Catherine and Vincent agree drastic measures are needed beginning with Vincent breaking Catherine’s father (Ted Dykstra) out of prison.

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Beauty and the Beast – Unbreakable

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  • Title: Beauty and the Beast – Unbreakable
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Beauty and the Beast - Unbreakable

Needing Vincent‘s (Jay Ryan) assistance to destroy blood samples that would draw the wrong kind of attention to both of them, Liam (Jason “Iron Eagle” Gedrick) proposes a temporary peace agreeing to leave Catherine (Kristin Kreuk) and J.T. (Nina Lisandrello) alone in exchange for Vincent’s help. While fighting her fears that Liam may be able to tempt her husband-to-be into giving into his more primative instincts, Catherine also attempts to sever Liam’s relationship with the powerful local family keeping the beast out of jail which reveals a truth about Liam’s far longer past than anyone suspected.

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American Ultra

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  • Title: American Ultra
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American UltraThe tail end of the summer movie season is pretty much a crap shoot. While I was pleasantly surprised with the under-appreciated The Man from U.N.C.L.E., director Nima Nourizadeh‘s stoner-action comedy is more what I’ve come to expect from this time of year. American Ultra isn’t a bad film, but it’s not all-together a good one either. A hodgepodge of ideas from both better and worse movies, American Ultra is an occasionally enjoyable B-movie mess.

Jesse Eisenberg stars as stoner convenience clerk Mike Howell with a girlfriend (Kristen Stewart) too good for him, friends (most notably John Leguizamo) just as mentally-challenged, and a brain full of secret CIA training which has been locked away for years until the most over-the-top Topher Grace ever captured on film decides to have Howell killed by agents that make the bad guys in Hudson Hawk look like Bond villains.

Activated by the former leader (Connie Britton) of the project, Howell soon finds himself with the ability to instinctively kill in a variety of bizarre ways without ever understanding exactly how, why, or what he’s doing. Dumb, but at least it looks cool on camera.

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Insurgent

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Insurgent
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InsurgentAs I was rather lukewarm on Divergent, the first movie of this series based on the young adult novels by Veronica Roth, it should come as no surprise that my reaction to its sequel is much the same. Insurgent continues the adventures of Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) on the run in a dystopian future broken into strict factions which neither properly fits into. Although the movie has a nice message about individuality, the ponderous path it takes to get there leaves something to be desired.

Despite a strong performance by Woodley as a character far more heroic in her actions and convictions than Katniss Everdeen, time has not made the premise of the series any easier to swallow. Not making that job easier this time around is the sequel’s plot which involves a magic Pandora’s box which only a true divergent may open and which Jeanine (Kate Winslet) believes she can use to crush the outsiders once and for all.

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